About this project
The Poetry Bomb is a former U.S. military practice bomb. The artifact will be completely converted into a beautiful object filled with poetry from around the world. When finished, it will have a primo paint job just as if it were a classic car, complete with pin-striping. It will also have a window or portal that will open and close making it possible to not only see inside of the piece, but to take poems out at performances to read out loud, and to add future submissions. Once converted, I will take The Poetry Bomb on tour across the United States, and then, who knows? Plan on beginning the tour in late April of 2010.
I am soliciting funds not only to create The Poetry Bomb, but also, to then take The Poetry Bomb on tour.
Everyone who contributes anything at all will be listed as a participant in the project as a part of The Bomb Squad on Facebook and in any subsequent documentation.
You can follow the progress of the project, help spread the word and get more specifics about submissions (everyone is welcome, everyone!) at the Facebook fan page, "The Poetry Bomb". Please, SUBMIT TO THE BOMB!
(*The short presentation film, "THE POETRY BOMB" is by Christopher Lockett, that's his music in the background too. Thanks Chris!)
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on February 27, 2010.
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A Poetry Bomb postcard.
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A signed 8x10 color photo of The Poetry Bomb. Either before or after conversion, your choice. However, the after pic won't be available until at least the spring.
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A limited edition, letter pressed, signed poetry broadside created by Bottle of Smoke Press made specifically for The Poetry Bomb.
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The Poetry Bomb T shirt.
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You get the postcard, the signed photos of before and after, the Bottle of Smoke poetry broadside and the T shirt, the entire explosive enchilada!
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Husband, father, and tall, bald guy with two cats (Ooga Catsooga & Juno The Destroyer), I live, love and work in left of west Los Angeles. Happily married to my very own Jersey girl, Lorraine, a librarian at the Huntington Library and LA Mudperson. Proud father of Spencer who says hello to the world with his wild guitar.
As a poet, publisher and editor pounding away at the process for over 25 years, I worked on staff for underground alt poetry zines Shattersheet, The Moment, and Nuthin' Sacred, then published and edited my own zine (Sic) Vice & Verse with Rafael FJ Alvarado for 9 years. Together we published many writers, photographers and artists including Martin Espada, Sherman Alexie, Risa Mickenberg, Holly Prado, Harry Northup, Tomato du Plenty, Rachel Kusher, Antony Ausgang, Laurel Ann Bogen, Louis Metz, Dave Alvin and Roque Dalton. Co-editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder's Mouth, 1999, Firecracker Award). I also co-edited and published Black Ace 8 for Temple of Man in 2007, a tribute to late Venice Beat progenitor Tony Scibella. Black Ace 8 includes work by Diane di Prima, Jack Hirschman, Steve Wilson, David Meltzer, Charles Bukowski, Bob Branaman, Ellyn Maybe, Aya, George Herms, John Macker, Jack Micheline, Aaron White, Saul White and many other fine writers and artists.
I've toured the U.S. and Canada with poetry performance ensembles The Lost Tribe (1984-1992) in a 1972 Mercury Capri, White Trash Apocalypse (1995-1997) in a 1971 Buick Riviera and The Carma Bums (1989-2009) from behind the wheel of a 1959 Cadillac. Can you tell that I like cars? Lorraine and I were married in my 1960 Caddy Coupe, which we still have. Sadly, all the others are hasta la bye bye. In 1989 I was named best performance poet for The LA Weekly by the great Wanda Coleman.
Very proud to be included in The Golden Anniversary Edition Beatitude edited by Latif Harris and Neeli Cherkovski, my recent books are Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel, a collaborative piece with John Dorsey and Scott Wannberg (Butchershop/Rose of Sharon/Temple of Man, 2005), Numbskull Sutra (Rank Stranger Press, 2007) and Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2008). As the publisher/editor of Rose of Sharon Press I have been honored to publish a long list of poets including A.D. Winans, Charles Bukowski, Todd Moore, Scott Wannberg, David Smith, Pleasant Gehman, Iris Berry, M. Lane Bruner, Doug Knott, Mike Mollett, Ellyn Maybe, Philomene Long, Stuart Z. Perkoff and Tony Scibella. The latest offering from Rose of Sharon is Call by francEyE in 2008.
Lucky to have been a working actor since 1978, beginning my on camera career as one of the bad cowboys in Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider... I am the left handed cowboy.
I happen to make some of the best macaroni and cheese you'll ever put into your mouth, which I learned how to cook by watching my Grandma Elsie work her culinary magic on an old cast iron stove.
Veteran USAF.
Support small press, long live independent bookstores! Librarians and libraries rule!!
